Two major Canadian marijuana producers are merging to create a $6 billion mega-corporation. Fifteen companies have 10 percent of California’s licenses. The era of Big Marijuana began a while ago. The title of “world’s largest and most valuable marijuana company” has changed hands yet again. Last week, Aurora Cannabis paid $850 million for CanniMed, another,…

Marijuana farmers with small and medium-sized grows worry about the cost and stability of California’s current distribution system. As California begins to implement the regulations surrounding its new recreational cannabis market, industry insiders are adapting to the state’s new distribution process and finding that it’s now excessively difficult for cultivators to get the product to…

The story of a young man from Colombia whose two minor marijuana possession charges from the early 2000s have sent him into a decades-long struggle towards obtaining political asylum in the United States. Adres (not his real name) is Colombian. He has asked for anonymity, citing the pending legal status of his case and the…

SANTA ANA – Sky High Holistic, a medical-marijuana dispensary that gained national attention after Santa Ana police officers were caught on video during a 2015 raid eating snacks and making fun of a disabled woman, was one of two dispensaries closed by city officials Tuesday morning. Sky High and Elevated Dreams, in the same strip mall in…

A new class of epilepsy medications based on an ingredient derived from marijuana could be available as soon as the second half of 2018 in the United States, pending Food and Drug Administration approval. Officials from GW Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the drug, on Wednesday announced promising results from a study on 171 patients…

The price of a pound of legal marijuana plummeted in January, according to a new report tracking the commodity’s U.S. spot price index. The first month of 2018 has been marked by uncertainty in the cannabis industry after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded Obama-era guidance on marijuana enforcement. But analysts at Cannabis Benchmarks, an…

“In 2017, we brought cases against more violent criminals than in any year in decades. We charged the most federal firearm prosecutions in a decade. We convicted nearly 500 human traffickers and 1,200 gang members, and helped our international allies arrest about 4,000 MS-13 members. We also arrested and charged hundreds of people suspected with…

A 24-year-old former Trump campaign worker who rose rapidly to a senior post in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy will step down by the end of the month because of controversy surrounding his appointment, the White House said late Wednesday. Taylor Weyeneth, who graduated from college in May 2016, was named…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions hasn’t launched any raids or prosecutions since he revoked the Cole Memo on Jan. 4, but he’s created the same familiar chaos at the bank — and that might be enough. It’s been more than two weeks since Attorney General Jeff Sessions escalated the federal government’s war on legal marijuana. Anger…

New Jersey’s new governor continues to not waste time when it comes to marijuana policy. This week, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order to expand access to the state’s medical marijuana program. In the executive order, Murphy called on the New Jersey Department of Health and Board of Medical Examiners to review…